It was a difficult decision to leave her position as an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at UAH this past summer, but Dr. Kathy Hawk is happy to still be working in the field she had long been teaching: U.S. national security policy. This time, however, her office is in the heart of the Pentagon as the branch chief for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence’s Combatant Command Intelligence Support Division.